Old Men In Journalism

The most pathetic ügvre m jourr.:i iism is the grown ; vice. writes .t. W. Keiler in the a. Throngh do fault oí his he finds h.imsclf without a rocation when :t. In any other busiiis cxperience would be of valuc. The accumiilated knowledge of years would eommand a prize commensjurate wlth lts worth. Ilerc it is valueless, because in the first ten years of his journalistic career he has mastered the art f reporting, of eopy readinff, oí anv routine departraental work. and experiencü shows that celorlty decreases with age after a certain period of yeara has been reached. Jcnrnalism is esaentially a business for young tnen. They rush into it by hundrcds, they rcmain in it by tens. Ninety por cent. of the men who enter journalisrn leave it before they beoome Old. They remain in it ouly longenough to make it a steppintc stone to something else less exacting, less liinited in remuneration, less insecure in employment. On the staff of the daily newspapers wlth which I am connected there is only one man over fifty years of age, and tho averag-e age of the employés in the editorial department is less than thirty-five. A canvass of other metropolitan newspaper offices will show but a slight variation from these figures. There are more old men doing messenger service for telegraph companies than reporting for the daily newspapers __